Elements of Art and Principles of Design
Represents the viewer’s eye level or where the sky meets the water or land. When inside, it could be where the wall meets the floor
What is Horizon line?
What is a paint brush?
Known for painting assembly line type paintings of pies, cakes, etc.
Who is Wayne Thiebaud?
The symbmolic meaning that was represented by a skull in 17th century European Still-life (or Vanitas) paintings.
What is Death?
Area closest to the viewer.
What is foreground?
Refers to the general arrangement of elements of art in a work of art.
What is compositon?
a type of book where drawings, notes, doodles and ideas are kept.
What is a sketchbook?
Artist famous for colorful pop-art screen prints including one that featured repeated images of famous hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe.
Who is Andy Warhol?
This medium was often used by governments to create propeganda, and by artists to bring awareness to issues and/or promote social change.
What is Printmaking?
shapes occurring naturally with irregular outlines.
What is Organic?
a combination of elements or shapes repeated in a recurring and regular arrangement
What is pattern?
A type of paint that hardens like plastic as it dies.
What is acrylic paint?
Heavily influenced by Surrealism, this contemporary artist paints bizarre and humorous images; including a female figure carring a platter of a tukey covered in shiny hair.
Who is Julie Curtiss?
an artistic and cultural movement that was heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis and dream interpretation.
What is Surrealism?
Three methods of shading and adding value to a drawing.
What is hatching, cross-hatching, or stippling?
The place where something moves so far away from your view that it just vanishes
What is Vanishing Point?
Material that is compressed into a stick and used for drawing and creating rich blacks. It is also extremely messing and transfers surfaces easily.
What is Charcoal?
Artist famous for creating instructions to make his work and likened himself to a composer. One of his most famous pieces was titled Wall Drawing #368
Who is Sol Lewitt?
A genre of art that is an arrangement of inanimate items (items that are not alive), which can includes man-made or natural objects, cut flowers, fruit, vegetables, fish, game, wine and so on.
What is a Still-Life?
one of several Principles of Design ultilized in Tyler the Creator,'s album titled Flower Boy.
What is repetition, rhythm, movement, emphasis, or balance.
Regular shapes such as squares, circles. Human-made
What is geometric?
used to paint color or designs onto ceramic or clay surfaces.
What is glaze?
Painter known for his distinctive portraits of young black men and women, rendered in a Photorealist style against densely patterned backgrounds and posed to reference famour art historical portriats. One of his most recent works was a portriat of fomer US President Barack Obama.
Who is Kahinde Wiley?
Chinese Artist Ai Wei Wei filled the Tate Modern Museum in London with 100 million of these objects as a commentary on the relationship between the individual and the masses.
What are Porcelain Sunflower seeds?
Jan van Eyck’s, Arnolfini Portrait painted in 1434 was distinctive in that it's various hidden symbolic elements meant that the painting acted as what kind of document?
What is a marriage contract?